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Need pollen for a Nepenthes ventricosa x campanulata 'Menehune' thats in bloom

Metranisome

When Time Stood Still
My Nepenthes ventricosa x campanulata 'Menehune' has started to put up flowers.
The flower spike appears to be female.

I'm looking for any Nepenthes pollen that might be available right now so that I can try and pollinate the flowers.

Flower spike-
<a href="http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/metranisome/media/20150511_132500_zpsrjguejfu.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/o578/metranisome/20150511_132500_zpsrjguejfu.jpg" border="0" alt="Nepenthes 'Menehune' flower photo 20150511_132500_zpsrjguejfu.jpg"/></a>

Pitcher-
<a href="http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/metranisome/media/20150323_124336_zpszpwrhnkv.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/o578/metranisome/20150323_124336_zpszpwrhnkv.jpg" border="0" alt="Nepenthes 'Menehune' photo 20150323_124336_zpszpwrhnkv.jpg"/></a>

Feel free to post if your interested and i can give you address to send the pollen. I plant of course to share the seeds produced, I have very little space to grow so i plan on giving out the majority of them.



Link to photos of the species on CPPhotofinder-
http://www.cpphotofinder.com/nepenthes-menehune-1387.html
 
What kind of hybrid do you want to make?? I always have males in bloom, but not all of them are going to be good mates for yours.
 
I am not particularly picky on hybrids, It really depends on how many people respond with pollen. I understand pollen is something that you only have whats available to work with, and I plan to do what I can with whats available.

I plan on trying to pollinate a small set of flowers with however many donors respond, which I figure will be a reasonably small amount. If only one responds, then I will pollinate them all with whatever pollen is available.

As for my preference, it would be another N. campanulata hybrid.
I'm somewhat excited about being able to make an interesting cross, and I figure just about any new cross with be interesting in one way or another.
 
I have pollen of (inermis x singalana) x mira, x mixta, and 'Miranda' available. At least the first should pair really well, the latter two might make interesting results too.
 
2 PM's sent. Thanks for the response everyone.

Wow, crossing it with N. (inermis x singalana) would probably be a a cool looking cross.
 
If you're interested, please send me a PM. What I have is: N. platychila, N. tenuis, N. ventricosa x inermis, and N. inermis. I know the platy and ventrinermis are viable, but it's the first time tenuis and inermis have bloomed for me so it might be a craps shoot.
 
I think (ventxcamp) x inertia would be a wonderful hybrid!
 
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